http://www.scanbarrow.com ScanBarrow en-us hourly 1 1970-01-01T00:00+00:00 Thu, 15 May 2008 08:41:16 -0400 http://www.ScanBarrow.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=259 http://www.ScanBarrow.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=259 The Barrow County Commission has voted to accept a $34,386 grant from the U.S. Department of Justice to purchase three thermal imaging scopes for the Barrow County Sheriff\'s Office.<br><br>The scopes are able to detect heat given off from an individual\'s body, helping deputies to find suspects or fugitives who have disappeared into wooded areas.<br><br>Without the equipment, Barrow County deputies have called the Georgia State Patrol when they needed the technology.<br><br>... Wed, 14 May 2008 08:14:01 -0400 http://www.ScanBarrow.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=258 http://www.ScanBarrow.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=258 An elderly couple from Monroe were taking a friend home from a religious revival meeting in the wee hours Tuesday morning when another car slammed into them head-on on Georgia Highway 11, killing the couple, Winder police said.<br><br>A third person died in the 1 a.m. crash near Fort Yargo State Park and The Eagle Greens at the Chimneys golf course; two other people were critically injured.<br><br>Wilber F. Taylor, 71, and Dorothy Jean Pike-Taylor, 70, were taking 65-year-old Gerald Whitlow to his... Tue, 13 May 2008 08:44:06 -0400 http://www.ScanBarrow.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=257 http://www.ScanBarrow.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=257 Barrow County sheriff\'s deputies have arrested 19 men and women and obtained felony drug warrants for 24 others as part of one of the widest-reaching narcotics investigations in the county\'s history.<br><br>The arrests come after a two-month investigation, which started with undercover investigators making buy-busts that produced information leading to other dealers, said Chief Deputy Murray Kogod of the Barrow County Sheriff\'s Department.<br><br>Deputies and officers seized what they said is almost ... Fri, 02 May 2008 13:45:04 -0400 http://www.ScanBarrow.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=256 http://www.ScanBarrow.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=256 Firefighters and sheriff\'s deputies will be holding out empty boots at intersections across the county today and Saturday to collect donations for the Georgia Firefighters Burn Foundation.<br><br>This is the 19th year the Barrow County Fire Department has held its \"Give Burns the Boot\" drive to raise money for Camp Oo-U-La, Georgia\'s only camp for children who have been burned.<br><br>This is the first year Barrow County Sheriff\'s deputies have joined in the fundraising efforts.<br><br>... Sun, 27 Apr 2008 07:51:49 -0400 http://www.ScanBarrow.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=255 http://www.ScanBarrow.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=255 The annual summer ban on outdoor fires takes effect Thursday throughout the region.<br><br>The ban is imposed by the state Environmental Protection Division to help improve air quality during the smog season and to comply with the Federal Clean Air Act.<br><br>The ban, which runs through Sept. 30, prohibits burning in 54 Georgia counties, including Barrow, Clarke, Jackson, Madison and Oconee.<br><br>... Fri, 25 Apr 2008 08:29:49 -0400 http://www.ScanBarrow.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=254 http://www.ScanBarrow.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=254 It\'s been more than 30 years since Barrow County Sheriff Joel Robinson rode his first patrol shift as a deputy.<br><br>Back then, the Barrow County Sheriff\'s Office had fewer than 10 deputies to run patrols, respond to calls and operate the county jail. Lacking in manpower one day in 1974, Sheriff John Robert Austin turned to a young radio operator, Robinson, pointed to a patrol car and said, \"You get in the car. You\'re a deputy.\"<br><br>\"I told him that I didn\'t know how to arrest anybody,\"... Fri, 18 Apr 2008 07:41:35 -0400 http://www.ScanBarrow.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=253 http://www.ScanBarrow.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=253 Local law enforcement officers will handcuff themselves to running treadmills Saturday in hopes of collaring donations for the annual Law Enforcement Torch Run, which raises money for Special Olympics Georgia.<br><br>Officers from the Arcade Police Department and the Barrow County Sheriff\'s Office will participate in the \"Special Olympics Cuffed for a Cause\" fundraiser by chaining themselves to moving treadmills. Each officer will have to stay on the treadmill for eight hours or until they... Thu, 13 Mar 2008 12:05:37 -0400 http://www.ScanBarrow.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=252 http://www.ScanBarrow.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=252 Lt. Steve:<br><br>I was driving up 400 and a cop stopped me for speeding. There was traffic to my right so I pulled over to the left against the median wall. The officer was agitated with me and I didn't like his attitude. I couldn't pull over to the right because of the traffic. What should I have done? Was I dumb to do that?<br><br>Dear Dummy:<br><br>Having been there myself, I'm guessing the officer was a bit on the agitated side knowing that he was about to be run over. The only thing that would fit in... Sun, 09 Mar 2008 13:23:42 -0400 http://www.ScanBarrow.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=251 http://www.ScanBarrow.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=251 WINDER - As Internet-savvy as most teenagers think they are, they\'re always shocked when Barrow County sheriff\'s Detective Lisa Carr shows them how a stranger can use their MySpace page to find out where they live, where they go to school and what they do for fun.<br><br>\"At this point their mouths are hanging wide open,\" Carr said, standing in front of a satellite photo of her own home that she found using her stepson\'s old MySpace.com screen name, home town and school information.<br><br>Then,... Tue, 04 Mar 2008 09:23:29 -0500 http://www.ScanBarrow.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=250 http://www.ScanBarrow.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=250 Three people were killed Sunday night on Georgia Highway 211 when a sports car - traveling at 100 mph just moments before - slammed head-on into another car on the two-lane road.<br><br>Braselton Police Officer Ray Rutledge first spotted the speeding Chevrolet Camaro just before 10 p.m. Sunday at the intersection of Georgia Highways 211 and 124. The officer clocked the car traveling at 100 mph in a 55-mph zone.<br><br>Rutledge attempted to stop the speeder but never could catch up.<br><br>... Tue, 26 Feb 2008 07:26:43 -0500 http://www.ScanBarrow.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=249 http://www.ScanBarrow.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=249 The Georgia State Patrol has released the names of two people killed Sunday afternoon in a four-vehicle collision in Barrow County.<br><br>Nancy Hamrick, 69, and Katherine Collier, 7, both of Winder, were passengers of a vehicle that was struck by another vehicle about 3 p.m. on Georgia Highway 211 near Old Thompson Mill Road.<br><br>The relationship of the two victims is not yet known, though Barrow County authorities said they are related.<br><br>... Mon, 25 Feb 2008 07:11:39 -0500 http://www.ScanBarrow.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=248 http://www.ScanBarrow.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=248 A child and her female relative were killed and two others, including a second child, were injured Sunday afternoon in a four-vehicle collision in Barrow County.<br><br>The crash occurred between 2:30 and 3 p.m. on Georgia Highway 211, just south of Thompson Mill Road, according to Barrow County Sheriff\'s Office Maj. Murray Kogod.<br><br>Authorities did not release the names or exact ages of the drivers or passengers on Sunday.<br><br>... Tue, 18 Dec 2007 07:59:45 -0500 http://www.ScanBarrow.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=247 http://www.ScanBarrow.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=247 Winder police detectives still are sorting through hundreds of pornographic photos and videos from a local man\'s travel trailer to find out how many of the images contain minors and if any of those children are from Winder.<br><br>Samuel Laird, 54, of 23 Windsor Drive, was arrested Saturday and charged with sexual exploitation of a child after a routine traffic stop uncovered eight pornographic pictures containing minors in the center console of his white Chevrolet Astro work van.<br><br>Detectives... Tue, 20 Nov 2007 07:55:26 -0500 http://www.ScanBarrow.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=246 http://www.ScanBarrow.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=246 Volunteers with the Barrow County Fire and Emergency Services Department, the Barrow County Sheriff\'s Office and the Barrow County Community Emergency Response Team toy donations on the first three Saturdays of December.<br><br>Workers will visit neighborhoods to collect new, unwrapped toys for children who will spend Christmas at the Peace Place shelter for women and children in Winder, said Scott Dakin, public information officer for the Barrow County Fire Department.<br><br>Toys that are not needed ... Mon, 12 Nov 2007 08:06:22 -0500 http://www.ScanBarrow.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=245 http://www.ScanBarrow.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=245 Deputies with the Barrow County Sheriff\'s Office arrested four alleged gang members this week in connection with a Sunday night gang-related beating in Auburn that left several people injured.<br><br>Witnesses told investigators Sunday they saw a car carrying eight gang members pull onto Muirfield Way in Auburn. The men wore gang colors and masks, and used bats or clubs to beat several neighbors and terrorize others, according to Chief Deputy Murray Kogod of the Barrow County Sheriff\'s Office.<br><br>...